Told myself I'd try LLMs for coding just to stay up to date on tech. The architecture of the web project I built with it makes me want to cry. It's been some use for code review and reverse-engineering, but even with "cite sources" it still makes shit up. That's cost me a good chunk of my day.

Every morning I'm here at this hour there seems to be a headline of "Oil prices jump/rise/spike" or "Oil prices fall/slump/drop". Can we just go with "Oil prices volatile" and save on the endless loop...

Misinformation! Ceefax is still unaffected, I'll have you know! 😆 nmsceefax.co.uk

it seems this is another one of the "completely unexpectedly doing well for no apparent reason" videos

Today's activities

The system that runs all my Things - including all versions of NMS Ceefax - is getting a bit of a clear up. Generally speaking I think it's already pretty reliable (considering) but hopefully after this it will be even better.

If you remember the final version of Ceefax, which ran from around 1996 until DSO - from 1998 it was produced by boxes like these. You can tell they're the real deal because they're beige. They are essentially PCs running MS-DOS with a fancy teletext inserter ISA card. More to follow.

Live from NMS Central Communications... 😆

In a world of websites steadily becoming worse & more horrid, glad to see that RS have bucked the trend and finally added the ability to filter out items that aren't actually in stock. Although why they didn't do this years ago like everyone else, I have no idea.

Shall we play a game?

Morning

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

I've not added anything to the javascript TV clocks for a while, so here's something particularly silly – It's the logo silkscreen printed on the front of the "GNAT" hardware from the 90s, turned into a working clock zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...

Looking inside a TSL MDU that can be controlled over IP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5bQ...

BBC Two have suspended programming by the looks of things

Looking inside a TSL MDU that can be controlled over IP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5bQ...

Always good to start the day off with a few alarms.

bit of a spike in traffic to NMS Ceefax today, courtesy of @tomscott.com's mailing list:

Super pleased to say the PFC livestream has just crossed 500 likes. Which works out to somewhere around 1.2 likes per day. youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live

My latest subrack invention produces (HD)-SDI from a Raspberry Pi on one small card.

More things should be controlled via teletext datacast packets, I say...

Incidentally - the entire NMS Ceefax recreation has been going for over 10 years now. Yeah. Seriously.

The Pages from Ceefax live stream has now been running for a full year - as of about 5pm (GMT). www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OU...

My latest video is looking inside a 32² matrix from Pro-Bel. I promise I'm not only going to be looking at routers! Just so happens to be what I've been working on this week. youtu.be/mk1wqheh6TA

You asked for it many times, it's finally here. You can now switch TV channels between BBC1 and Channel 4, the latter of which will now let you play Bamboozle!

Long shot, but would anyone happen to have the control/config software for a Probel Halo 32x32 SDI matrix around somewhere? Can't seem to find it online anywhere.

Looking at the circuitry inside a pair of Quartz 16x16 Video Matrices (routers) youtu.be/pYm4DO4bZaU

I’m sure I speak for all television presentation website owners when I say this: we run our sites in our spare time. We do it because we care, not because it’s our job. We add the material we actually have, when we have time to do it. Please don’t tell us how to run our websites.

Moment of appreciation for the lady who wrapped my eBay parcel. What a perfect job

Here's a video looking at my subrack crates and the custom cards that run in them www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD1S...

so the question is, should I recreate Aertel to go with NMS Ceefax???

🟪 TX | This evening's edition of ITV News Calendar (South) took a rare look behind-the-scenes at the Belmont transmitter, marking the 60th anniversary of transmissions from the mast. >> LINK: youtu.be/vgYe3jJd-vU?...

Er, well I must say this was totally unexpected. Apparently more people are interested in my old junk than I'd have ever thought.

Looking inside an early 80s BBC Audio link transmitter. It transmits on 859.8 (or 854.5) MHz, at around 12 watts. youtu.be/Ia82aHWLI-k

Less fascist-owned data-hoovering slop, and more of this on the internet please 👇

The show continues on Pages From Ceefax. You can still keep an eye on the news, weather and football scores - great for background use. Stream has been up for nearly a year now, if I can hold it together. youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live

Last couple of hours of Christmas music on Pages From Ceefax. I can't tell what time it will officially "switch over" at, simply because I haven't decided and it depends on what else I'm up to tomorrow. Assume late evening anyway. youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live

This isn't news to regular users of my online teletext viewer as it's been online for ages, but one of the channels has a service from this evening 40 years ago. This was recovered from a VHS tape and every page painstakingly repaired and turned back into a packet stream zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

Necessity is the mother of invention. (spotted in work)

Massive thanks to @illarterate.bsky.social for the Christmas graphics on Ceefax! nmsceefax.co.uk

Obligatory ~annual photo of Pages From Ceefax central control